I tried out kubuntu-desktop on vanilla 20.10 but now I'm done with that and want to remove it. No matter what I do I can still select Plasma on the login screen, I still have a kubuntu boot screen, my minimize/maximize buttons are wrong in Gnome, ugly icons everywhere... The list goes on.
I've tried:
- apt remove kubuntu-desktop, and then autoremove. I've come across some statements saying that that's not expected to work, but no explanation of why that shouldn't work. Not even after reading up on meta packages do I see why that shouldn't work.
- The instructions on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FromUbuntuToKubuntu. The output to the command just gives a long list of everything that's not installed, which doesn't help me.
- Looking at various similar questions here with 6 year old answers with comments describing the various levels of broken the respective answer left their system in. I naturally did not try most of those.
- Tried to uninstall plasma-desktop, but no success, I can still select Plasma upon login.
I haven't manually installed any of the components of kubuntu-desktop. I don't see why it's still supposed to be hanging on to all of its dependencies indefinitely from now on? Anyway, I'm now left with a Gnome desktop that's even worse than when I felt the need to investigate alternatives, which is not ideal.
Do I need to just wipe the entire OS, or is this recoverable in 2020?
